Igneous Quill

Trey Morgan, Steve Tucker and others are heading down to Honduras next week.  Why?  To feed people in a dump.  They aren't just going to be handing food out from the back of a pickup, as is the usual strategy.  They're going to be providing a full meal at tables with chairs.  The plan is to feed people until they are full.

I've already written about the theological imperative to carry out this sort of work.  Some of the world's most wretchedly poor, in nations around the globe, eek out a living daily by scavenging in the garbage for recyclable materials and food.  Men, women and children find themselves in this situation.  Some even live at the dump, setting up shacks atop the heaps of trash.

The first time I became aware of this problem was in 2002, around Christmas.  I wrote about it in what passed for my blog at that time, and later re-posted the entry to igneousquill.net (click here to read).  Grinding and humiliating poverty of this sort was then news to me.  It isn't any more.  I wish it were history.

The truth of it all, though, is that the "dump people" of the world need more than a hot meal today.  They need the powers and authorities that rule their lands to be called to account and to repentance.  They need medical care.  They need education and means to lift themselves out of their hardship.

Even if you aren't a Christian, or even a theist, I hope you can see the human duty we share to help those of our extended global family who find themselves in miserable, dire straits.

My hope is that what started as a "Dump Day" and is presently to be a "Jesus Banquet" will become a sustained effort to bring help and a door out of the dump to people who really need it.

Read more about it:

An explanation (with links to a series of posts on the topic) about the situation of "dump people" in Honduras.

A Banquet at a Trash Dump? and I'm So Blessed by Trey Morgan, explaining a bit more about the current effort.

Blog of a missionary in Honduras.

Brian Nicklaus has declared that all proceeds from the Second Annual Blogprophet Calendar Auction will go to help the people in Honduras.

Help Out:

Contributions to help provide food on a regular basis to people in the Honduran dump may be sent to:

Childress Church of Christ
(attn: Honduras)
PO Box 239
Childress Texas 79201